Is there a method in C# to check if a string is a valid identifier

Question

In Java, there are methods called isJavaIdentifierStart and isJavaIdentifierPart on the Character class that may be used to tell if a string is a valid Java identifier, like so:

public boolean isJavaIdentifier(String s) {
  int n = s.length();
  if (n==0) return false;
  if (!Character.isJavaIdentifierStart(s.charAt(0)))
      return false;
  for (int i = 1; i < n; i++)
      if (!Character.isJavaIdentifierPart(s.charAt(i)))
          return false;
  return true;
}

Is there something like this for C#?

Answer 1

Basically something like:

const string start = @"(\p{Lu}|\p{Ll}|\p{Lt}|\p{Lm}|\p{Lo}|\p{Nl})";
const string extend = @"(\p{Mn}|\p{Mc}|\p{Nd}|\p{Pc}|\p{Cf})";
Regex ident = new Regex(string.Format("{0}({0}|{1})*", start, extend));
s = s.Normalize();
return ident.IsMatch(s);